90 TRUE RICHES; OR,

 

“ But what had you to do with hes modes of doing
business ?””

“A great deal. As one of his employées, I was
expected to carry out his views.”

“ And not being willing to do that, you left his
service.”

“That is the simple story.”

“ Excuse me, Edward, but I can't help calling
you a great fool. Just see how you have stood in -
your own light. - But for this extra bit of virtue,
for which no one thinks a whit the better of you,
you might this day have been on the road to fortune,
instead of Parker.”

“ T would rather be in my own position than in
his,” replied Claire firmly.

“You would!” His companion evinced surprise.
“ He is in the sure road to wealth.’

“ But not, I fear, in the way to happiness.”

‘How can you say that, Edward ?”’

‘¢No man, who, in the eager pursuit of money,
so far forgets the rights of others as to trample on
them, can be in the way to happiness. ”’

“Then you think he tramples on the rights of
others ?”’

“JT know but little, if any thing, about him,’’ re-
plied Claire ; “but this I do know, that unless Leo-
nard Jasper be a different man from what he was
five years ago, fair dealing between man and man is
a virtue in a clerk that would in nowise recommend
him to the position of an associate in business.
His partner must be shrewd, sharp, and unscrupu-
lous——a lover of money above every thing else—a